Dictionary

temperament en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ˈtɛm.pɹə.mənt/ (UK)
• /ˈtɛm.pə.ɹə.mənt/ (UK)
• /ˈtɛm.pɹə.mənt/ (US)
• /ˈtɛm.pə.mənt/ (UK)
• /ˈtɛm.pɚ.mənt/ (US)
• (Southern-England) audio
• /ˈtɛm.pɚ.ə.mənt/ (US)

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English temperament, borrowed from Middle French tempérament, from Latin temperāmentum.

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) A person's usual manner of thinking, behaving or reacting.
   • President Taft did not have the temperament either to dominate or to work with his Congress. 1928, Franklin D. Roosevelt, The Happy Warrior Alfred E. Smith, Houghton Mifflin, →OCLC, →OL, page 13:
2. (countable, uncountable) A tendency to become irritable or angry.
3. (countable, uncountable) The altering of certain intervals from their correct values in order to improve the moving from key to key.
4. (countable, uncountable) Individual differences in behavior that are biologically based and are relatively independent of learning, system of values and attitudes.
5. (countable, obsolete, uncountable) A moderate and proportionable mixture of elements or ingredients in a compound; the condition in which elements are mixed in their proper proportions.
   • If I will aske meere Philosophers, what the soule is, I shall finde amongst them, that will tell me, it is nothing, but the temperament and harmony, and just and equall composition of the Elements in the body, which produces all those faculties which we ascribe to the soule […] 1624, John Donne, Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions, Meditation XVIII., in The Complete Poetry and Selected Prose of John Donne, ed. Charles M. Coffin, New York: Modern Library (1952), pp. 442-444
6. (countable, obsolete, uncountable) Any state or condition as determined by the proportion of its ingredients or the manner in which they are mixed; consistence, composition; mixture.

Forms

Deriveds

miracle temperament · circular temperament · intemperament · equal temperament · good temperament · artistic temperament · Helmholtz temperament · well temperament · judicial temperament · schismic temperament · meantone temperament · circulating temperament · temperamented · quasi-Pythagorean temperament

Translations (76)

kk қызуқандылық (a person's normal manner of thinking, behaving or reacting) · nb temperament (a person's normal manner of thinking, behaving or reacting) · ota عرق (a person's normal manner of thinking, behaving or reacting) · nl temperament (the altering of certain intervals from their correct values in order to improve the moving from key to key) · uk хара́ктер (a person's normal manner of thinking, behaving or reacting) · fi luonne (a person's normal manner of thinking, behaving or reacting) · ru темпера́мент (a person's normal manner of thinking, behaving or reacting) · ru нрав (a person's normal manner of thinking, behaving or reacting) · cs temperatura (the altering of certain intervals from their correct values in order to improve the moving from key to key) · be тэмпэра́мэнт (a person's normal manner of thinking, behaving or reacting) · ro temperament (a person's normal manner of thinking, behaving or reacting) · ja 気質 (a person's normal manner of thinking, behaving or reacting) · th พื้นอารมณ์แต่กำเนิด (a person's normal manner of thinking, behaving or reacting) · fi viritys (the altering of certain intervals from their correct values in order to improve the moving from key to key) · cmn 氣質 /气质 (a person's normal manner of thinking, behaving or reacting) · ota طبع (a person's normal manner of thinking, behaving or reacting) · da temperament (a person's normal manner of thinking, behaving or reacting) · fr tempérament (a person's normal manner of thinking, behaving or reacting) · de Charakter (a person's normal manner of thinking, behaving or reacting) · it temperamento (a person's normal manner of thinking, behaving or reacting) · ko 성격 (a person's normal manner of thinking, behaving or reacting) · bg темперация (the altering of certain intervals from their correct values in order to improve the moving from key to key) · nn temperament (a person's normal manner of thinking, behaving or reacting) · cmn 性情 (a person's normal manner of thinking, behaving or reacting) · ko 기질 (a person's normal manner of thinking, behaving or reacting) · pt temperamento (a person's normal manner of thinking, behaving or reacting) · fi temperamentti (a tendency to become irritable or angry) · ga réiteacht (the altering of certain intervals from their correct values in order to improve the moving from key to key) · da temperament (a tendency to become irritable or angry) · de Veranlagung (a person's normal manner of thinking, behaving or reacting) · bg темпераме́нт (a person's normal manner of thinking, behaving or reacting) · be тэмпэра́мент (a person's normal manner of thinking, behaving or reacting) · nl temperament (a tendency to become irritable or angry) · gl temperamento (a person's normal manner of thinking, behaving or reacting) · uk темпера́мент (a person's normal manner of thinking, behaving or reacting) · fi tulisieluisuus (a tendency to become irritable or angry) · nl temperament (a person's normal manner of thinking, behaving or reacting) · ar طَبْع (a person's normal manner of thinking, behaving or reacting) · fa اعتدال (the altering of certain intervals from their correct values in order to improve the moving from key to key) · cmn 脾氣 /脾气 (a person's normal manner of thinking, behaving or reacting) · fi temperamentti (a person's normal manner of thinking, behaving or reacting) · ota طمر (a person's normal manner of thinking, behaving or reacting) · eo humoro (a person's normal manner of thinking, behaving or reacting) · he מֶזֶג (a person's normal manner of thinking, behaving or reacting) · cmn 性格 (a person's normal manner of thinking, behaving or reacting) · gl tempero (a person's normal manner of thinking, behaving or reacting) · be хара́ктар (a person's normal manner of thinking, behaving or reacting) · el ιδιοσυγκρασία (a person's normal manner of thinking, behaving or reacting) · ja 性格 (a person's normal manner of thinking, behaving or reacting) · bg темперамент (psychology) · hi स्वभाव (a person's normal manner of thinking, behaving or reacting) · de Stimmung (the altering of certain intervals from their correct values in order to improve the moving from key to key) · es temperamento (a person's normal manner of thinking, behaving or reacting) · uk вда́ча (a person's normal manner of thinking, behaving or reacting) · fa خو (a person's normal manner of thinking, behaving or reacting) · la temperāmentum (a person's normal manner of thinking, behaving or reacting) · eo temperamento (a person's normal manner of thinking, behaving or reacting) · gl temperamento (a tendency to become irritable or angry) · bg раздразнителност (a tendency to become irritable or angry) · uk но́ров (a person's normal manner of thinking, behaving or reacting) · pt índole (a person's normal manner of thinking, behaving or reacting) · cs temperament (a person's normal manner of thinking, behaving or reacting) · eo animagordo (a person's normal manner of thinking, behaving or reacting) · ja 気性 (a person's normal manner of thinking, behaving or reacting) · de Temperament (a person's normal manner of thinking, behaving or reacting) · fi temperointi (the altering of certain intervals from their correct values in order to improve the moving from key to key) · gd nàdar (a person's normal manner of thinking, behaving or reacting) · bg нрав (a person's normal manner of thinking, behaving or reacting) · ru хара́ктер (a person's normal manner of thinking, behaving or reacting) · de Temperament (a tendency to become irritable or angry) · ca temperament (a person's normal manner of thinking, behaving or reacting) · it carattere (a person's normal manner of thinking, behaving or reacting) · es temperamento (a tendency to become irritable or angry) · fi temperamentti (psychology) · be но́раў (a person's normal manner of thinking, behaving or reacting) · nan-hbl 氣質 /气质 (a person's normal manner of thinking, behaving or reacting)